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OpenLinkNight #190

Hi everyone! Welcome to our OpenLinkNight ! This is your opportunity to link 1 poem of your choice as this is no prompt-day. For those who missed the Mr Linky deadline the past week or this Tuesday’s poetics about the “suburb” poem, this is also your opportunity to share your poem. I also want to remind you that our Haibun Monday is still open the whole week.

Hi Grace and everyone imbibing at the bar! I enjoyed the Thom Gunn poem very much, Grace. Mine is very short today as I’ve been rather busy but I look forward to reading a wide range of poetry once I have posted.
We’ve had a day of 80 mph winds, which scared the cats and had me jumping with every clunk and thud! Luckily, so far, only a down pipe has been blown off and I’m sure we can clip that back on again. However, there have been some serious accidents and widespread travel problems over here. It’s dying down now and I’m looking forward to a quieter weekend. I hope you are all well. Kim x

Hello everyone on this thirsty Thursday. Thank you for hosting this, Grace. I would like a big tall frosty glass of ginger ale please. In contrast to Kim’s weather, the sky is blue and cloudless, the temp is 79 F, and it is so calm, you can hear the cardinals from across the way with their “pretty pretty pretty” calls.

Hello Toni ~ Here you go *clicks glasses* and cheers to you ~ Weather here is playing tricks and I am envious of those cardinals chirping about ~ Here its been ducks and doves only so I am waiting for spring season to bring more colorful birds around our place ~

Happy OLN everyone and thank you for hosting tonight Grace. We had a calm day here today after storm Doris swept by yesterday. Hang in there Kim, she will pass quickly! I have linked a tanka I posted earlier today and will swing by to read in a minute :o)

Nice poem by Thom Gunn. I realized while reading it that surfing is one of the last things I will ever try to do. I’ll need to learn to swim first. Surfing is right up there with skydiving. Learning how to fly will have to come first.

No. You don’t have to learn to fly, just how to jump! 🙂 I can’t swim and I used to surf when a youngster. I also did sailing as well. I just wore a life belt when surfing. What a wonderful feeling of flying!

Hey all! Thanks for the gunn, grace. Always good to keep one under the bar, in any good western. Home from work, done some woodworking, now some wordsmithing, then off to bed. Ridiculously warm here today…

I’m with Frank. LOL! Skydiving and surfing…LOL! Short poem today, reworked, but that’s all I got in the brainpan. Thank you Grace and all else. I love OLN….it’s 70 today, perfectly beautiful ‘spring’ day, with Gainsborough clouds and soft blue sky. The contrast of the sky and the light grey trees, not blossoms yet, except the cherry blossom like Maples! The softness of the light makes you sleepy.

Hello everyone, am totally enjoying the February thaw that has seen temperatures reach double digits here (Celsius), with what has been a very mild winter, after predictions of a bitterly cold one, for most of Canada. Am sharing a poem, I have written early this month, about my struggle with body image and food, as part of my healing process.

Storm Doris came to play in the early hours. Cold and snowy on the ground. Today was an inside day for once. I am nearing the end of a long musical project across 30 schools, the top of this particular mountain if you like, and I am weary ( but fulfilled) My poetry is short tonight. Happy OLN all.

I forgot it was going to be Open Link Night and had posted a poem earlier in the day, but have linked it up now and will visit the other sites. It was a stormy day in the UK and although I joke about the modest size of our hurricanes, it did get my internet connection down a few times over the course of the day…